Quotes About Legacy

You inherit white heather, a bee's wing, Two suicides, the family wolves, Hours of blankness.

Even in the days I feel the worst, I feel glad to be alive. To be a part of this journey called life. To be one of the lucky 7 billion. Why was I chosen to be here? I must have a meaning, right? There's a big picture already painted of my life, my legacy, my happiness. I just have to trust in it.

Is that life after death — mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring?

Semmi sem valódi, csak a jelen, és én máris érzem, századok súlya fojtogat. Élt egy lány száz évvel ezelÅ'tt is, mint ahogy én most. ? halott. Én vagyok a jelen, de tudom, hogy egyszer én is elt?nök. A nagy pillanat, a lángcsóva, jön és megy, véghetetlen futóhomok. Nem akarok meghalni, nem.

Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die.

So you will rot in the ground, and so you say, what the hell? Who cares? But you care, and somehow you don't want to live just one life.

feel like some eon-old matriarch who has been through ice age and 40-day flood;

You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins Je veux de ces fragments étayer mes ruines ???????????????

No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.

Buckminster Fuller, um dos maiores inventores e filósofos da nossa época, disse: "O propósito da nossa vida é acrescentar valor à vida das pessoas desta geração e das gerações seguintes.

The point is that generally speaking, we tend to be identical to one or a combination of our parents in the arena of money.

The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

Diz respeito também a contribuir para a vida dos outros. Diz respeito a ser fiel à nossa missão e à nossa razão de estarmos neste mundo neste momento. Diz respeito a acrescentarmos a nossa peça ao quebra-cabeça do planeta.

La finalidad de nuestra vida es añadir valor a la gente de esta generación y de las siguientes».

Every writer owes something to Holmes. -- T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929

It [tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

You will go on, and when you have prevailed You can say: at this point many a one has failed. But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end. I shall sit here, serving tea to friends...

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.